Researcher at Groupe de recherches sémio-linguistiques,
a department of Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques, Paris,
directed by A.J. Greimas, 1978-1981; in particular as director of a
group analysing gestures at French
television.

Appointed Associate Professor of Cultural Semiotics
at Lund University, from July 1992 (85% research, 15% teaching).
Associate professor of semiotics and director of the Department of
semiotics, Lund University, since 1998.

Appointed Full Professor of Cultural Semiotics
at Lund University, from November 2000.

Appointed Full Professor of Semiotics
at the Swedish Research Council, June 2001.

Scientific
qualifications:

Participation in research projects:

Studies ranging from the semantic structure of the Mayan languages and
Mayan cultural semiotics, to artistic structures, the pictorial means
of communication in information society, and abstraction in pictures,
as part of the projects listed above.

Research on cultural types, modernity and modernism, as well as visual
rhetoric, in the framework of the position in cultural semiotics
financed by the Faculty of Humanities, Lund University.

Participated 1994/95 in a discussion group involved with developing a
humanistic perspective on mass media, resulting in an anthology
published in 1995

Participates since 1995 (until it finishes in late 2002) in the
project “Mening och tolkning” (“Meaning and interpretation”) at
Stockholm University, involving researchers from many disciplines,
financed by “Kulturvetenskapliga fonden” (“The foundation for research
in cultural sciences”), which has resulted, among other things, in an
anthology about types of interpretation, and another anthology about
interart studies from a systematic perspective.

Organizer, with Gisela Hĺkansson (Institute of linguistics), and Peter
Gärdenfors (Department of cognitive sciences), of a transdisciplinary
project financied by the Faculty of Humanities, Lund University,
concerned with “Languages, gesture, and pictures seen from the
perspective of semiotic evolution”, starting in July 2002.

Participation in editorial boards
(reviews):

From Spring 1996, member of the Editorial Committee of Visio, Revue
de l’Association internationale de sémiotique visuelle

Member of the scientific committee of Visio, since Spring 1996, as
well as that of Revista Chilena de Semiótica, Autumn 1996

From May 1989, member of the editorial board of Bulletin
international de sémio­tique de l´image, published in Tours,
France, by Association internationale de sémiotique de l´image/International
Association for Visual Semiotics), and Groupe EIDOS.

Editor of the folloqwing issues of the review Heterogenesis: no. 15, April
1996; no. 52, May 2006

Participation in editorial boards
(books):

Member of the editorial board of Encyclopaedia of Semiotics,
published by Oxford University Press in 1998, with particular
responsibility for visual semiotics,

Member of the editorial board of one volume of the series “The
Semiotic Web”, with the title “Advances in visual semiotics”, edited
by Thomas Sebeok and Jean Umiker-Sebeok, Indiana University Press,
Bloomington, Indiana 1995.

Editor (with Göran Rossholm) of Konstverk och konstverkan. Stehag:
Symposium, to be published in 2006

Bibliographical work:

Has
compiled the most comprehensive bibliography of visual semiotics
existing so far, published in Eidos, 1989-90. Published on the
Internet since Spring 1998.

Organizer of the most complete linking index in semiotics, published on the
web since 1996.

Assignments as expert:

Apart from work for the Bank of Sweden Tercentery Foundation for
Social Sciences, international expert chosen to assess scientific
projects also for the Humanities Research Council of Canada (6 times)
and for the Forschungskommission der Universität Basel.

Twice
member of doctorate jury at the Institute of literature, Lund
University. Member of a doctorate jury at UQAM, Monréal, October 2001.
Member of a doctorate jury at Stockholm University, June 2002. Member of doctorate
jury, Copenhagen, 2003. Member of doctorate jury, School of rchitecture,
Lund, 2004. Evaluation of Danish doctorate dissertation, Institute of
Molecular Biology, Copenhagen, 2003-2004.

Course in linguistic semantics at Escuela Nacional de
Antropología e Historia, México D.F., Mexico, October 1981 to April
1982

Graduate course in the semiotic of film and theatre, at the
department of theatre and film, Lund University, February 1984

Courses in pictorial semiotics at the introductory level, given
each semester at Department of art history, Lund University, from
1992 to the present.

Presentation of research in pictorial semiotics at
undergraduate level, at the Department of art history, Lund
University, from 1984 to the present.

Courses in pictorial semiotics as part of the theory courses
for graduate students at the Department of art history, Lund
University, 1984, 1989 and 1992.

Direction of the Semiotics seminar, started in September 1985,
at the Department of art history, Lund University, between 2 and 4
meetings every month

Direction of the Seminar of cultural semiotics, initiated in September
1992, at the Department of art history, Lund University, 2-4 times
every month. Since 1998, part of the curriculum of the Deparment of
semiotics at Lund University.

Two
graduate courses in semiotics, a basic course (5p) and a continuation
course (5p), open to students from all the faculties at the University
of Lund, given in the Spring term of 1995.

Tutoring at Escuela de Ciencias de la Comunicación Social, Universidad
Anahuac, México D.F., Mexico. Co-direction of theses for several
graduate students in art history, literary history, architecture,
pedagory, history, philosophy, linguistics, etc., at different
Swedish universities. Since 1998, direction of the thesis of those
students having elected to graduate in semiotics at the University of
Lund.

Since the department of semiotics only exists since 1998, and doctorate
students have only been able to begin their study in 2003, the first theses
directed by me will only be finished next year.

Although officially only advisory tutor, I have however had a major role in
the tuition leading to the following dissertations: Anders Marner, Aesthetical
sciences, Umeå, 2000; Hans Sternudd, Art history, Lund 2003. Gunnar
Sandin, Architecture, Lund 2004. Also tutoring within the SGB- and
SEDSU-projects.

Elaboration of teaching materials:

Introductory text book in visual semiotics, written in Swedish, with
the title "Bildbetydelser", published by Studentlitteratur in Lund in
March 1992; required reading for students in art history at Lund
University, where a provisional edition was used from 1991 onwards.
Also used at other Swedish universities, in Finland, at the
universities of Odense, Copenhagen, Trondheim, Oslo, and (as teacher’s
book) in Germany. German, Spanish and French translations have been in
preparation.

Participates since 1997 in a project aimed at the elaboration of a
multimedia in visual semiotics on CD-ROM, financed by the Swedish
State Foundation for Culture and Communication (“KK-stiftelsen”).

Many of my books and articles have been used as teaching materials in
many places in the world, from Gothenburg and Odense to Québec and Sao
Paolo.

Elaboration in 1994 of a syllabus for graduate studies in semiotics at
Lund University, officially sanctioned by the university in 1998,
revised in 2002.

Member of an international advisory commitee for the elaboration of a
curriculum in visual semiotics, Universidad Intercontinental, Mexico
City, Mexico, since June 1997.

Created the course on visual rhetoric within the Lund University Faculty
program “Rhetoric”, Spring 2004. Member of the directory of the rhetoric
course since autumn 2003.

Director of the Semiotics Seminar, co-director of the SGB/SEDSU-seminar.

Invited lectures:

At the international level:

School of architecture in Paris, on several occasions 1978-1981; at
Institut supérieur de rééduca­tion psychomotrice, Paris, 1985;
symposium of the Norwegian Association for Semiotics Studies, Bergen,
in November 1989; about cultural semiotics at Centre for
semiotics, Odense University, 27 October 1992; at the semiotics circle
of Trondheim university, Trondheim, 29 September 1993; about cultural
semiotics at Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico
City, 12 November 1993. at Konstindustriella Högskolan in Helsinki, 7
February 1994; at symposium on the text concept, Oslo 18 March 1994;
at congress in Imatra about the semiotics of exhibitions, 20 July
1994; at congress in Imatra about the spirit of places, 21 July 1994;
about semiotics in the Nordic countries and about the notion of text
at the Third Congress of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies,
Trondheim, 21-23 October 1994; about cultural semiotics at the
University of Gdansk, 20 January 1995; about the communication model
at the congress on Semiotics of the Media, Kassel 18-24 March 1995;
about iconicity and about the communication model at International
Summer Institute on Semiotics and Structural Studies, Imatra,
10-17 June 1995; about verbal and visual texts at VAKKI-Symposion:
Text and picture, Vöyri, Finland, 10-11/2 1996; at symposium on
the media and communication models, Oslo, 25-27 February 1996; at the
Institut for media and film, Copenhagen university, 2 May 1996; at
Nordiskt sommaruniversitets sommarsession, Tromřy, Norway, 27-31 July
1996: lecture as part of research course on iconology, Lammi, Finland,
November 17, 1996; lecture at the Institute of Art History, Ĺbo
Akademi, Finland, November 18, 1996; lecture at symposion on media
semiotics, Oslo, Norway, January 16-19 1997; Lecture on iconicity,
Department of semotics, Ĺrhus University, Denmark, March 29, 2000.

Symposium of Semiotics,
at International Semiotics Institute, Imatra, Finland, 16-21 July
1990.

Series of lectures on visual semiotics, given at Université
Laval, Québec, and UQAM, Montréal, Canada, between April 12 and 28
1991.

Course in visual semiotics, given in the framework of First Nordic
Summer School of Semiotics, at Lund University, 25-31 July 1992;
and in visual rhetoric and cultural semiotics, at Third Nordic
Summer School of Semiotics, at International Semiotics Institute,
Imatra, 8-15 June 1996.

Series of lectures on visual semiotics and semiotics of culture,
given at Université Laval, Québec, and UQAM, Montréal, Canada, between
April 4 and 21, 1997, as well as between November 8 and 18, 2000.

Six
lectures on semiotic theory, visual semiotics and semiotics of
culture, at the invitation of the Department of semiotics, Tartu
University, Estonia, November 4 to 9, 1997.

Three lectures within the framework of 11th Early Fall School of Semiotics,
Sozopol, Bulgaria, September 10-16, 2005.

Invited to give series of web lectures about “Current issues in pictorial
semiotics” at Semiotics Institute Online. As of May 2006, 4 out of 10 lectures
online.

(see also International experiences: congresses)

In Sweden:

Presentation of semiotics at the institutes of literature, art
history, religion, linguistics, etc., at all the Swedish universities,
from 1983 onwards.

Conference at symposium organised by Kungliga Vitterhets-, Historie-
och Antikvitetsakade­mien, October 1989; about pictorial
semiotics, as part of a course in semiotics at the Institute of
linguistics, Gothenburg university, May 1990; in general semiotics
at Institute of literature and Nordic languages, in Stockholm,
February 1991; in pictorial semiotics at Tema K in Linköping, February
1991; at Institutionen för pedagogik, Lund University, November 1991;
in visual semiotics at Arkitekturhögskolan in Lund, May 1992;
in film semiotics at Drama/teater/film, Lund University, 13
November 1992; in narrativ semiotics, as part of a symposium of
narrative structures, Skissernas museum, Lund, 27 November
1992; in cultural semiotics as part of a symposium at Stockholm
university, organised by Svenska föreningen för semiotik (sffs), 8-10
January 1993; about paraphrases in pictures, as part of a symposium
organised by Bildmuseet and Department of art history at Umeĺ
University, 27-28 January 1993; about modern culture at a symposium on
modernity, Lund University, 5-7 December 1993; at Institutionen för
kulturvetenskap, Gothenburg, February 16, 1994; about the
communication model and about pictorial narration at symposium in
Stockholm organised by Svenska föreningen för semiotik, 6-9 October
1994; about visual semiotics at Skoltema in Kalmar, 1 November 1994;
conference and seminar on visual semiotics at Konstfackskolan in
Stockholm, 7 February 1995; at institution för kognitionsforksning,
Högskolan i Skövde, 7 March 1995; about the critique of iconicity at
symposium in Stockholm within the framework of the project “Mening och
tolkning”, 4-6 May 1995; about narrativity in pictures at the
congress Interart Studies, Lund, 15-29 May 1995; at symposium on
indexicality, organised by Svenska föreningen för semiotik and SSKKII
in Gothenburg, 1-2 November 1995; participation in the project “Mening
och tolkning”, at Stockholm University, 18 December 1995, 19 February
1996, 12 March 1996 (about iconicity and other fictions); 10 May 1996;
3-4 June 1996. at the Department of art history, Umeĺ, 4 March and 18
March 1996; about visual rhetoric, at symposium in Lund, 10-11 April
1996; at Institutionen för estetiska ämnen, Umeĺ, 29-30 May 1996.
Conference in the framework of the project “Mening och tolkning” at
Stockholm University, November 16, 1996; conference as part of
symposion on semiotics of culture, Lund, November 23, 1996; lecture at
the Instiute of Culture science, Gothenburg, May 27, 1997; lecture
within the project “Meaning och tolkning”, Stockholm, October 23, and
November 28, 1997. Lecture on semiotics of culture as part of the Sffs
Congress in Linköping, December 5-6, 1997. Conference as part of
“Mening och tolkning”, Stockholm, April 2, 1998. Lecture on visual
rhetoric, School of Architecture, Lund, April 17, 1998. Lectures within
the project “Mening och tolkning”, Stockholm, April 3, 1998, February
12, April 10 and June 8, September 14, 1999, January 28, 2000. At
Institutionen för kulturvetenskap, Gothenburg, November 17, 1998: At
the School of Architecture, Stockholm, April 8, 1999. Lecture and
participation in round-table at the research course “Ma”, organized by
the Dramatic Institute, Stockholm, May 10 to 11, 1999. Lecture at the
biannual symposium of the Swedish society for semiotics, Umeĺ,
November 18-20, 1999. Lecture about iconicity at the Institute of
linguistics, Lund University, May 17, 2001. Lecture about the
semiotics of dance, Swedish Royal Academy of Dancing, Stockholm, April
27, 2002; lecture at Dept of human
ecologi, Lund, March 10, 2004; at Lund Technical University, Campus
Helsingborg, May 17, 2004.

Conferences about visual and general semiotics as part of a summer
school about aphasia, held at Sigtunastiftelsen, 6-10 August 1990,
organised by Forskningsrĺds­nämnden and Akademiska sjukhuset
in Uppsala.

Presentation of research

for
drawing teachers, Umeĺ, October 1988; at Konstskolan Forum in Malmö,
February 1990, at Konsthögskolan in Stockholm, March 1991; at
Konstskolan Forum in Malmö, 3 and 10 November 1992; about semiotics of
photography, at Fotohögskolan, Gothenburg University, 2 December 1992;
at Kulturarbetarföremedlingen in Malmö, 4 March 1993; symposium of the
art project “Bipol-art” in Lund, den 7 September 1993; as part of a
course in drama pedagogy given at the teachers college in Malmö, 4
October 1993; opening of the Swedish art exhibition “Combi-nación”, in
Mexico City, 10 November 1993; Rix, Linköping, 15 April 1994; Lunds
konsthall, 9 June 1994; Amos Anderssons Konstmuseum, Helsinki, 28
October 1994; in Gdansk, 20 January 1995; presentation of semiotics
for the three enterprises involved with the investigation of
publicity: LUI, Nielsen, and SIFO, Stockholm, 26-28 March 1996; at
Humanistdagarna, Lund University, 19 April 1996; on contagion as
metaphor in cultural semiotics, ABF, Stockholm, October 7, 1996; on
the the concept of the avant garde, under the auspices of the art
review “Paletten”, “Bok och bibliotek”, Gothenburg, September 15,
2000.

International experience

Congresses and colloquia:

Invited plenary lecturer at the following congresses:
Fifth International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural
Studies, Toronto, Canada, May-June 1984; Congress of the International
Semiotics Institute: Centre vs Periphery, at the International
Semiotics Institute in Imatra, Finland, 16-21 July 1990; “Jornadas
internacionales de semiótica de expresión visual”, in Bilbao, Spain,
1-6 October 1990; “Image, imaginaire, et sémiotique”, in Blois,
France, 1-4 November 1990; at the congress of Nordiska Sällskapets för
Semiotik “Culture as semiotics/Semiotics of culture”, Odense, 7-9
November 1990; at the congress of Nordiska Sällskapets för Semiotik,
“Breaking the semiotic barrier”, Lund, 27 to 29 July 1992; at “Segundo
Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Semiótica Visual: Semiotica
y nuevas tecnologias”, Bilbao, 11 to 15 December 1992; at congress
about media semiotics, International Semiotics Institute, Imatra, 4-5
February 1994; International Semiotics Institute, Imatra, congress
about the semiotics of exhibitions and “genius loci”, 18-22 July 1994;
at the congress of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies,
Trondheim, October 1994; at the congress Semiotics of the Media,
Kassel 18-24 March 1995; International Summer Institute for Semiotic
and Structural Studies, Imatra, June 1995; VAKKI-Symposion: Text
and picture, Vöyri, Finland, 10-11/2 1996. At the 4th
congress of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies, Imatra, June
1996; at
the 5th International Congress of the International
Association for Visual Semiotics, Siena, Italy, June 22-28, 1998 (two
lectures, organization of a section and moderator of two other
sections). At the 5th Congress of the Nordic Association
for Semiotic Studies, Oslo, October 29 to November 1, 1998 (two
lectures); at the Seventh Congress
of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Dresden,
September 6 – 11, 1999 (two lectures, organization of one round-table,
invited as participant in another round-table); at the colloquium
”Semiotics, Archaeology, and the History of Religion”, Istambul,
Turkey, December 2 to 10, 2000; at the colloquium ORAGE 2001,
Asix-en-Provence, June 17 to 23, 2001; at
the symposium “Fiction and perspective”, organized by Stockholm
University and Kungliga Vitterhets-, Historie- och
Antikvitetsakade­mien, October 3 to 7, 2001; at the 6th
International Congress of the International Association for Visual
Semiotics, Quebec City, October 14 to 21 (two plenary lectures, one
participation in workshop); at the colloquium on Spatiality and
Culture, Quebec City, October 18 to 20, 2001; at the international
conference ”Cultural Identity in transition”, Bacau, Romania, October
31 to November 4, 2001; at the colloquium ”Logica — Dialogica —
Ideologica”, Bari, Italy, February 11 to 17, 2002; at the colloquium
”Analytical approaches to visual communication”, Izmir, Turkey, April
16 to 21, 2002; at the colloquium ”Semiotica e Retorica generale”,
Centro Internazionale di Semiotica e Linguistica, Urbino, Italy, July
11 to 13, 2002; at the colloquium ”Text, bild, samhälle”, Tammerfors,
Finland, August 15 to 16, 2002; at the 5th International Interdisciplinary Symposium of the Austrian Society for
Semiotic Studies Picture Language - Visualization – Diagrammatics”,
Viena, November 6-8, 2002; at KVIT, Linköping, Sweden, May 14-16,
2003; at the colloquium “Lectures e cultures”, UQAM, Montreál,
November 5-6, 2003; ; at the 7th International Congress of the
International Association for Visual Semiotics, Mexico City, ecember 10-
14, 2003. at “The body and Embodiment”, Gothenburg, May 7-9, 2004,
organised by Gothenburg University och SCASSS, Uppsala; at sympsoion
of narratology, Dept. of lingvistcsk/literary studies, Stockholm university,
3-5 september, 2004; at 8ème congrès de l’Association Internationale de
Sémiotique, Lyon, 7-12 juli, 2004; at International Summer School for
Semiotic and Structural Studies, Imatra, Finland, June 11-19, 2005; at I
encontro internacional para o estudo da semiosfera, Sao Paolo, Brasil,
August 22 to 27. 2005; 2o Congreso Mundial de Semiótica y
Comunicación, Monterrey, México, Octubre 18 a 23, 2005. at ESF
Exploratory Workshop: The contribution of animal research to the study of
human cognition, Marseille, December 7-9 2005 (as discussion leader).

Participation in many other congresses,
e.g. "Tercer simposio internacional de la Asociación espańola de
semiótica",Madrid 5-7 December 1988 and Fourth congress of the
International Association for Semiotic Studies, Barcelona/Perpignan,
Mars-April 1989; in Fifth Congress of the International Association
for Semiotic Studies, Berkeley, 12-18 June 1994 (two conferences, ”The
ecological foundations of iconicity” and “Semiotics in the Nordic
countries”). Sixth Congress of the International Association for
Semiotic Studies, Guadalajara, Mexico, July 12-21 1997 (two
conferences, organisation of one round table and moderator of two
sections); Symposium on the work of Roman Jakobson, Copenhagen,
October 9-11 1996. The symposium “Meaning and Interpretation”,
organized by Stockholm University and Kungliga Vitterhets-, Historie-
och Antikvitetsakade­mien, September 24-26, 1998. Congress of the
Nordic Association for Interart Studies, Gothenburg, November 13-15,
1998);
the 6th Congress of the Nordic Association for Semiotic
Studies, Copenhagen, November 23 to 25, 2000; Epigentic Robotics, Lund
University, September 16 to 18, 2001; Colloquium of the Swedish
Association for Semiotics Studies, Borlänge, April 12 to 14, 2002;
Witin the framwork of the SGB-projekt: “Empathy,
Intersubjectivity, Language“, Lund, November 13-14, 2003, and “Semioticdevelopment in phylogeny and ontogeny“, Lund, May 12-13, 2005; at 8ème
congrès de l’Association Internationale de Sémiotique, Lyon, 7-12 juli, 2004
(four lectures).

International charges:

President of Nordiska sällskapet för semiotics (Nordic Association
for Semiotic Studies; NASS), since July 1992; Swedish
representative in the board since 1989.

From 1989 to 1996, and again from 1998, vice presidentof Association
internationale de sémiotique de l´image (International Association for
Visual Semiotics), founded in Blois 1989. Elected in October 2001
secretary-general of the association.

Member of the executive commission ofInternational
Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS/AIS). In July 2004, elected vice secretary general of
IASS/AIS

Elected fellow of the International Communicology Institute, USA, 2005.

Member of the scientific commission of “Jornadas internacionales de
semiótica de expresión visual”, Bilbao, 1 al 6 de octubre de 1990”; of
“II Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Semiótica Visual:
Semiotica y nuevas tecnologias”, 1992 (director of the workshop on
abstraction and figurativity): for Septimo Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de
Semiótica Visual, Mexico D.F, December 2003; member of the scientific
commission and main organiser of Journées de sémiotique visuelle, part of
the IASS/AIS-congress in Lyon, July 2004; member of the scientific
commission of the congress “Language, Mind, Culture”, in Portsmouth,
England, July 2004, as well as of the sequel palnned to July 2006 in Paris;
member of the reading commision for the axt sof the IASS:s congress in
Lyon, July 2004; member of the scientific commission for the next IASS:s
congress in Hensinki, June 2007; member of the scientific commission and
co- organiser of the SEDSU-project meeting and conference in Lund,
Comparison and Interaction between Semiotic Resources in Evolution and
Development, , 29-30 september 2006.

Member of International Research Group on Prehistoric Pictographs
and Petroglyphs, and international group of experts in semiotics
and archaeology set up by Paul Bouissac, Victoria University, Toronto.

Responsible for Nordic network in semiotics, from January 1993
to June 1997, and which was financed by the Nordic Research Academy;
organised in this framework a symposium in Lund, December 1993;
several workshops at NASS:s congress in Trondheim, October 1994, a
planification meeting in Helsinki, February 17-19, doctorate candidate
participation at the Imatra congress in June 1995, a symposium on
visual rhetoric in Lund, April 10-11 1996, and a sympsium on cultural
semiotics, in Lund November 22-24, 1996; as well a planning meeting in
Lund, December 7 to 9, 2001.

Organised a workshop on visual semiotics in the framework of
International Summer Institute on Semiotics and Structural Studies,
Imatra, 10-17 June 1995 (also see below adminstrative qualifications).

Director of the Special Interest Group on Photography, set up by the
International Association for Semiotic Studies, and organizer of the
meetings of this group during the congress in Guadalajara, Mexico,
July 1997, Siena, Italy, 1998, and Dresden, Germany, 1999.

(also see above about participation in editorial boards and below
about administrative qualifications)

Administrative qualifications:

President and treasurer of Svenska föreningen för semiotics (sffs),
since February 1991; vice-president since 1993; president of Nordic
Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS) since July 1992.
Secretary-general of Association internationale de
sémiotique visuelle/International Association for Visual Semiotics,
since October 2001.

Organiser of NASS/NorFa:s summer school in semiotics at Lund
university, 24 July 31 to 1992, and of NASS:s second congress
and sffs:s first congress in Lund, 27 to 29 July 1992.
Co-organiser of summer school in semiotics at the university of
Trondheim, and of NASS:s third congress in Trondheim, 16-23 October
1994; as well as of summer school in semiotics at International
Semiotics Institute, Imatra, Finland, and of NASS:s fourth congress in
Imatra, 8-16 June 1996.

— The mirror and the virtual world. From hominisation to digitalization. To
appear in the acts of Segundo congreso mundial de semiótica y comunicacion.
Monterrey, Mexico, Octubre 19 a 22, 2006.

— How global is global semiosis? Going beyond Sebeok’s paradox. To appear
in the Acts of International Summer school for semiotic and structural studies,
Imatra, Finland, June 11-19, 2005.

— The Trace of Bygone Things. History and Structure of the Semiotics of
Photography. In Papers from the 11th early fall school of semiotics, Sozopol,
Bulgaria, September 10-16, 2006.

— The Semiosphere and the Domain of Alterity. In Actes of I Encontro
internacional para o estudo da semiosfera. São Paulo, August 22-26, 2006.

— The place of the picture in the development of human beings. At the
crossroad of semiotics and cognitive science. In Les signes du monde:
Interculturalité & Globalisation: Actes du 8ème congrès de l’Association
International de sémiotique, Lyon, 7-12 juillet, 2004

— The pronominalisation of culture. Dyadic and triadic models of
interculturality in the conceptions of the Tartu school, Bakthin, Cassirer, and
Peirce. In Les signes du monde: Interculturalité & Globalisation: Actes du 8ème
congrès de l’Association International de sémiotique, Lyon, 7-12 juillet, 2004

— The meaning of meaning in biology and cognitive science. A semiotic
reconstruction. To appear in Trudy po znakyvym sistemam — Sign System
Studies

— Rhetoric from the standpoint of the Lifeworld. To appear in VISIO

— Iconicity strikes back : the third generation — or why Eco still is wrong.
Plenary speach at the Sixth Congress of the International Association for Visual
Semiotics, Quebec City, Quebec, October 14 - 21, 2001. To be published in
VISIO 9: 3-4.

— Spatiality and culture in the prototype hierarchies of the Lifeworld.
Contribution to the colloqium Spatiality and Culture, Quebec City, October 18 to
20, 2001. To be published in the acts of the colloqium.

— On modelling the complexity of cultural models. To appear in Sign Processes
in Complex Systems. Proceedings of the 7th Internationall Congress of the IASS,
Dresden, October 6, 11, 1999

— Global and local constraints in picture production. To appear in Sign
Processes in Complex Systems. Proceedings of the 7th Internationall Congress of
the IASS, Dresden, October 6, 11, 1999

— The Laokoon Paradigm. Meaning as a resource in visual and verbal arts. To
appear in Papers from the fifth bi-annual meeting of the Swedish Society for
Semiotic Studies, Umeå University, November 19-20, 1999, Anders Marner, ed.

— Bats out of the belfry. The question of pictorial metaphor. In Semiotics of
metaphor. Johansen, Jørgen Dines, & Posner, Roland, eds.

— The Limits of Nature and Culture in Cultural Semiotics to appear in Papers
from the fourth bi-annual meeting of the Swedish Society for Semiotic Studies,
Linköping University, December 1997, Richard Hirsch, ed.

2005:

— Current issues in pictorial semiotics. Lecture two: The Psychology and
Archaeology of Semiosis. Second conference of a series published online at the
Cyber-semiotics Institute. August 2005

— Semiotics in Sweden. In Semiotrix, 2005, Bulletin 3 (First edition). Semiotic
review published on the net by Paul Bouissac.

2004:

— Perspective from a semiotical perspective. In Essays on fiction and
perspective. Rossholm, Göran, (ed), 255-292. Bern: Peter Lang. Papers from the
symposion "Fiction and perspective", organized by Stockholm University and
Kungliga Vitterhets-, Historie- och Antikvitetsakademien, October 3 to 7, 2001.

— The signs of the body and the body of signs. From ecology to semiosis in
embodiment. SGBWP8. Working Papers of the Project "Language, gesture, and
pictures from the point of view of semiotic development", Lund University,
Lund.

— Spaces of urbanity. From the village square to the boulevard. In Place and
location III: The city — topias and reflection. Sarapik, Virve, & Tüür, Kadri,
(eds.), 25-54. Talinn: Estonian Academy of Arts.

– The Symbolic Species revisited. Considerations on the semiotic turn in
cognitive science and biology SGBWP3. Working Papers of the Project "Language, gesture, and pictures from the point of view of semiotic
development", Lund University, Lund.

— Why the mirror is a sign — and why the television picture is no mirror. Two
episodes in the critique of the iconicity critique. In Proceedings of the 5th
International Interdisciplinary Symposium of the Austrian Society for Semiotic
Studies "Picture Language - Visualization – Diagrammatics: Iconicity/Das 5.
Wiener Symposium 'Bildsprache - Visualisierung - Diagrammati": Ikonizität ,
November 2002, published as S. European Journal for semiotic studies, volume
15:2-4, 2003, pp. 217-232.

— Spaces of urbanity. From the village square to the boulevard. In Place and
location III: The city — topias and reflection. Sarapik, Virve, & Tüür, Kadri,
(eds.), 25-54. Talinn: Estonian Academy of Arts.

– The Symbolic Species revisited. Considerations on the semiotic turn in
cognitive science and biology SGBWP3. Working Papers of the Project "Language, gesture, and pictures from the point of view of semiotic
development", Lund University, Lund.

— Why the mirror is a sign — and why the television picture is no mirror. Two
episodes in the critique of the iconicity critique. In Proceedings of the 5th
International Interdisciplinary Symposium of the Austrian Society for Semiotic
Studies "Picture Language - Visualization – Diagrammatics: Iconicity/Das 5.
Wiener Symposium 'Bildsprache - Visualisierung - Diagrammati": Ikonizität ,
November 2002, published as S. European Journal for semiotic studies, volume
15:2-4, 2003, pp. 217-232.

2001:

— The
pencils of nature and culture. In Special Issue of Semiotica,
136-1/4 Signs and Light.. Ponzio, Augusto, & Petrilli,
Susan, (eds.), 27-53.

—
From Semiosis to Ecology. On the theory of iconicity and its
consequences for the ontology of the Lifeworld. In Visio, 6; 2,
2001, 85-110. Cultural cognition and space cognition, Quinn, Andrew
(ed.).

—
Bridging nature and culture in cultural semiotics. Published on CD-ROM
in Bridging Nature and Culture.Proceedings of the 6th
International Congress of the IASS, Guadalajara, Mexico, July 13 to 19,
Gimate Weslh, Adrián, ed.

—
Visual signs in the age of digital reproduction. Published on CD-ROM in
Bridging Nature and Culture.Proceedings of the 6th
International Congress of the IASS, Guadalajara, Mexico, July 13 to 19,
Gimate Weslh, Adrián, ed.

—
The multimediation of the lifeworld, in Semiotics of the Media.
Proceedings of an international congress, Kassel, March 1995. Nöth,
Winfried, (ed). Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin & New York 1997; 61-78

—
The ecological foundations of iconicity, In Semiotics Around the
World: Synthesis in Diversity.Proceedings of the Fifth
International Congress of the iASS, Berkeley, June 12-18, 1994.
Rauch, Irmengard, & Carr, Gerlard F. (eds.). Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin &
New York 1997; 739-742.

—
Semiotics in the Nordic Countries, In Semiotics Around the World:
Synthesis in Diversity.Proceedings of the Fifth International
Congress of the iASS, Berkeley, June 12-18, 1994. Rauch, Irmengard,
& Carr, Gerlard F. (eds.). Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin & New York 1997;
165-168.

— The
quadrature of the hermeneutic circle. In LSP and theory of
translation. Acts of the XVI Vakki symposion, Text and Image, Vöjri,
February 10-12, 1996 Vaasa 1996; 9-33.

— An
essay concerning images. From rhetoric to semiotics by way of ecological
physics. Review of Groupe µ, Traité du signe visuel. Pour une rhétorique
de l'image. In Semiotica109-1/2, March 1996, pp. 41-140.

— On
the distance of possible readings. Comments on Elkins, James, On the
impossibity of close reading, in Current Anthropology, 37:2,
April 1996, pp. 215-216.

1995:

— On
pictorality. The impact of the perceptual model in the development of
visual semiotics, in Sebeok, Th., & Umiker-Sebeok, J., eds., The
semiotic web 1992/93: Advances in visual semiotics, Mouton de
Gruyter, Berlin & New York 1995, pp. 67-108.

—
The culture of modernism. Conference at Second International Congress
of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies, Lund, July 27-29, 1992.
To be published in the acts, in Semio-Nordica, II:3-, 1994.

— In
search of the Swedish Model in Semiotics. Considerations on a body of
literature in the process of constitution; in Semiotica, 90:1/2,
May/June 1992; pp. 31-123.

—
Bodily semiotics and the extensions of man, in Tarasti, Eero, ed.,
Center/Periphery in representations and institutions. Proceedings from
the 3rd Annual Meeting and Congress of The International Semiotics
Insitute, Imatra, Finland, July 16-21, 1990.: International
Semiotics Institute, Imatra 1992; ss 185-210.

—
The semiotic function and the genesis of pictorial meaning, in Tarasti,
Eero, ed., Center/Periphery in representations and institutions.
Proceedings from the 3rd Annual Meeting and Congress of The
International Semiotics Insitute, Imatra, Finland, July 16-21,
1990.: International Semiotics Institute, Imatra 1992; ss 211-256.

—
The second Infotopia, text forming part of the artwork Blowing in the
wind, created by Casmo Info, Eventa, in Uppsala, June 1995, published
on the World Wide

Translations:

— Translation from French to English of Hammad, Manar, La privatisation de
l'espace (Limoges: Nouveaux Actes Sémiotiques, 4-5, 1989), with the title The
privatisation of space (Studies in Theoretical and Applied Aesthetics 2002:1).
Lund: School of Architecture. The English translation can be bought from the
Department of Theoretical and Applied Aesthetics, Lund University

— Retour sur la matière du sens à l’ére de la production digitale. Position paper
within the special workshop on plastic language, during the Sixth Congress of
the International Association for Visual Semiotics, Quebec City, Quebec,
October 14 - 21, 2001. Published in VISIO 9: 1-2. Legaré, Serge (éd), 215-234.

— Rhétorique du monde de la vie. In Ateliers de sémiotique visuelle, Henault,
Anne, & Beyaert, Anne (eds), 83-100. Paris: PUF
o There also a pdf-version of the French text
o An English version of my interpretatory scheme for visual rhetorics is
available online [sic!], 95-119.

—
Iconicité de limage Imaginaire de liconicité. De la resemblance ŕ la
vraisemblance. To be published in the acts of Premier Congrčs de
l’Association internationale de sémiologie de limage, Blois, novembre de
1990.